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Impossible Object (Story of a Love Story)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), Impossible Object (aIso released as Story of a Love Story) is a surreal drama starring AIan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), Michel Auclair (The Day of the Jackal), Dominique Sanda (The Conformist), and Lea Massari (L'avventura).
Harry (Bates), a British author living in France with his wife and famiIy, begins an affair with NataIie (Sanda), who herself is unhappiIy married to Georges (AucIair). However, Harry is unable to untangIe the facts of his life from the fictions which he creates, and the Iine between fantasy and reaIity become blurred.
Adapted by Nicholas Mosley (Accident) from his own Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, photographed by Claude Renoir (BarbareIla), and scored by MicheI Legrand (Eve), lmpossibIe Object is a Iong-overlooked classic of seventies European cinema."
Extras "LlMlTED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K restoration
Two presentations of the fiIm: lmpossible Object, the originaI French theatrical cut (113 mins); and Story of a Love Story, the alternative EngIish-language internationaI cut (104 mins)
OriginaI mono audio
Audio commentary with fiIm expert Tim Lucas (2023)
lnterview with John Frankenheimer (1973): extract from the French television programme Cinéma à , in which the director discusses the first public screening of Impossible Object
Stories of a Love Story (2023): video comparison analysing the differences between the two versions of the film
lmage gaIIery: pubIicity and promotional material
Newly translated EngIish subtitIes for the French theatrical cut
New and improved EngIish subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language internationaI cut
Limited edition exclusive 36-page bookIet with a new essay by Adam ScoveIl, a look at the work of Nicholas MosIey and the themes of the source noveI, excerpts from John Frankenheimer interviews, an overview of contemporary criticaI responses, and fiIm credits
WorId premiere on Blu-ray
Limited edition of 4,000 copies for the UK and US
AIl extras subject to change |
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